Richard Beek

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Richard Beek (born February 17, 1924 in Ulm , † August 17, 2007 in Munich ) was a German actor in film, television and theater. He gained fame above all as a stage actor at the Münchner Kammerspiele , of which he was a member for 46 years.

life and career

Beek made his debut as a theater actor at the age of 21 and was engaged at the Münchner Kammerspiele from 1955 to 2001. At the beginning of the 2001/2002 season he moved to the Bavarian State Theater with Dieter Dorn and large parts of the ensemble . His last major role was the servant Wenzel in the play Cherubim based on a novel by Werner Fritsch .

His film career includes several cinema productions for the director Ottokar Runze, including films such as The Knife in the Back , Lost Life , The Murderer or Star Without a Sky , as well as works by the filmmaker Richard Blank Friedliche Tage , Doris Dörrie Happy Birthday, Turk! , as well as films for directors such as Bruno Jonas , Hardy Martins , Dagmar Knöpfel , Sebastian Schipper , Marc Rothemund , Zoltan Spirandelli Vaya con Dios or the comedy From Searching and Finding Love by Helmut Dietl .

Richard Beek died on August 17, 2007 at the age of 83 in Munich.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 34 f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Actor Richard Beek has died . derstandard.at, August 20, 2007.
  2. ^ Obituary for Richard Beek in: Hamburger Morgenpost
personal data
SURNAME Beek, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film and theater actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 2007
Place of death Munich